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Overview
The American Library Association: Book Ban Data.
Books
Amanda Jones: That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America.
Jason Stanley: Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future.
Organizing Against Book Bans
Podcasts
Code Switch: ‘Not a badge of honor’: how book bans affect Indigenous literature.
First Person podcast: A Small-Town Librarian Spoke Against Censorship. Then the Dark Money Came for Her.
Articles: 2024
Sara Youngblood Gregory: Who Is Beating Back Book Bans?
Nuria Martinez-Keel: New criteria for Oklahoma textbooks asks for ‘traditional’ gender roles, reverence for religion.
Justine McDaniel & Hannah Natanson: Florida law led school district to pull 1,600 books — including dictionaries.
Hannah Natanson: Teachers are limiting lessons on political, social issues, report finds.
Hannah Natanson & Anumita Kaur: Red states threaten librarians with prison — as blue states work to protect them.
NPR: The number of book titles that people tried to ban rose by 65% last year.
Brett Sholtis: Parents confront Warwick school board over secret meeting with lawyer who has helped schools ban books.
Tovia Smith: In Georgia, a bill to cut all ties with the American Library Association is advancing.
Douglas Soule: ‘Challenges our authority’: School board in Florida bans book about book bans.
Neda Ulaby: A secret shelf of banned books thrives in a Texas school, under the nose of censors.
2023
Hannah Allam: Culture war in the stacks: Librarians marshal against rising book bans. Facing smear campaigns and death threats, librarians are on the front lines of what they call an urgent battle for intellectual freedom.
AP News:
- Ta-Nehisi Coates attends school board meeting to back teacher told to stop using his book on racism.
- Judge blocks Arkansas law allowing librarians to be criminally charged over ‘harmful’ materials.
Margery A. Beck: Publishing industry heavy-hitters sue Iowa over state’s new school book-banning law.
Steve Benen: GOP rep suggests replacing libraries with ‘church-owned’ alternatives.
Maya Henson Carey: Students Mobilize To Fight Censorship.
Reshma Kirpalani & Hannah Natanson: The lives upended by Florida’s school book wars.
Andrew Lapin: The Florida mom who sought to ban Amanda Gorman’s poem says she’s sorry for promoting the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Steven Monacelli: The Texas Historical Commission Removed Books on Racism and Slavery From Plantation Gift Shops.
Hannah Natanson:
- Red states quit nation’s oldest library group amid culture war over books.
- Students want new books. Thanks to restrictions, librarians can’t buy them. Schools are struggling to keep their shelves stocked as oversight by parents and school boards intensifies.
- The Post reviewed 1,000 school book challenges. Here’s what we found.
- Objection to sexual, LGBTQ content propels spike in book challenges.
- Her students reported her for a lesson on race. Can she trust them again? Mary Wood’s school reprimanded her for teaching a book by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Now she hopes her bond with students can survive South Carolina’s politics.
- ‘Racist,’ ‘grooming’: Why parents are trying to ban so many picture books.
- She challenges one school book a week. She says she’ll never stop.
- Red-state education restrictions leave textbook publishers in a bind.
- Are book bans discrimination? Biden administration to test new legal theory.
Hannah Natanson & Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff: Book removals may have violated student civil rights, Education Dept. says.
Rhonda Sonnenberg: Georgia teacher fired for reading children’s book about acceptance in class.
Rachel Treisman: U.S. book bans are taking a toll on a beloved tradition: Scholastic Book Fairs.
Maya Yang: Florida mother behind ban on Amanda Gorman poem has Proud Boys links.